A Norman Paradigm? Scholastic Reasoning, Jesuit Pedagogy, and the Emergence of Political Economy

Abstract

Due to Normandy’s peculiar local and environmental characteristics, it was an ideal microcosm and an original laboratory, in which the multiform mediation of late scholasticism generated an unexpected intellectual vitality in a context of encounter and clash with the theological-philosophical disputes of the Reformation. The Norman exceptionality as a focal point and natural multiplier in the evolutionary process of political economy deserves its due attention, as well as the thread from Oresme to Montchrétien, William Petty, and Boisguilbert, as well as their connection to the Jesuit pedagogy.

Giovanni Patriarca, "A Norman Paradigm? Scholastic Reasoning, Jesuit Pedagogy, and the Emergence of Political Economy," Journal of Markets & Morality 26, no. 2 (2023): 181-209